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Encounters with James B. Conant-Harvard President and Defender of the Public School
- Torsten Husén
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 1990
- pp. 76-87
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0355
- Article
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James B. Conant's significance as an educator included establishing a graduate school of education at Harvard, reforming postwar German education as American High Commissioner, and leading a major study of American high school and teacher training, The American High School Today. The author recalls his association with Conant in relation to that report and their work together in the 1960s on the Governing Board of the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research in Berlin.
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ISSN | 1529-1456 |
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Print ISSN | 0162-4962 |
Pages | pp. 76-87 |
Launched on MUSE | 2010-06-24 |
Open Access | No |
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